Former WBA and IBF world boxing champion Denis Lebedev told that the former UFC fighter Francis Ngannou can reach great heights in boxing.
Ngannou made his boxing debut last October in a fight with British WBC champion Tyson Fury, but lost by split decision. Ngannou will fight his second boxing fight against Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Saudi Arabia.
— Ngannou is a very gifted athlete. We also have many such examples. For example, Alexander Povetkin moved from kickboxing to boxing and reached the maximum. As for Francis, he has great prospects. In the right hands it can achieve good results. He now has all the jokers, cards and trump cards. He’s already shown it. Ngannou is now like modeling clay, you can model anything with it. But there is such a thing about heavyweights that everything is decided in one fell swoop. There is an expression: the light bulb is shaken and that’s it, it does not hold, ”Lebedev told .
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